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Camp Nelson
Camp Nelson was a large Union quartermaster and ...
Barney L. Ford Building
The building at 1514 Blake Street was one of the...
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
During the summer of 1859, John Brown (1800-1...
Theodore Roosevelt Island
Mason's Island is now known as Theodore Roosevel...
Bruin's Slave Jail
The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1854), described h...
Riley-Bolten House
The Riley/Bolten House is associated with Rev...
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
The famous abolitionist, writer, lecturer, state...
New Castle County Courthouse
The New Castle County Courthouse, a National ...
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery
By the end of the Revolutionary War, many Qua...
Bethel AME Church, Greenwich New Jersey
The small, concrete masonry church known as Beth...
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Camp Nelson
Camp Nelson was a large Union quartermaster and commissary depot, recruitment and training center, and hospital facility located in southern Jessamine County, Kentucky, six miles south of Nicholasville. Camp Nelson is the nation's best preserved large Civil War depot, ...
Barney L. Ford Building
The building at 1514 Blake Street was one of the earliest commercial successes for Barney L. Ford, a pivotal black leader in the early history of Colorado. Ford was a black pioneer, businessman, civic leader and politician who actively ...
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
During the summer of 1859, John Brown (1800-1859) developed a strategy for seizing Harpers Ferry and gathered weapons, supplies, and supporters while living at the Kennedy Farm, located seven miles away in Maryland. His plan was to liberate slaves ...
Theodore Roosevelt Island
Mason's Island is now known as Theodore Roosevelt Island because of the Theodore Roosevelt monument there. It is wooded with several archaeological sites in addition to the monument. The Potomac River flows into two channels surrounding the island. It ...
Bruin's Slave Jail
The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1854), described how she employed her knowlege of Bruin's slave jail as background for her explosive 1852 novel,Uncle Tom's Cabin. In The Key, she described the escape of a number of slaves from ...
Riley-Bolten House
The Riley/Bolten House is associated with Reverend Josiah Henson (1789-1883), whose memoirs were used to develop the main character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's landmark novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. The Riley farm where the house stood was where Henson lived ...
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
The famous abolitionist, writer, lecturer, statesman, and Underground Railroad conductor Frederick Douglass (1817--1895) resided in this house from 1877 until his death. At the request of his second wife, Helen Pitts Douglass, Congress chartered the Frederick Douglass Memorial and ...
New Castle County Courthouse
The New Castle County Courthouse, a National Historic Landmark, is a Georgian style brick building, built in three sections between 1730 and 1830. Among its many court cases were the Hunn-Garrett Trials of 1848. Thomas Garrett(1789-1871), a businessman, and ...
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery
By the end of the Revolutionary War, many Quakers and anti-slavery sympathizers had set aside land for freed slaves. African-American hamlets were established in secluded areas on portions of Quaker land throughout western New Jersey. Small Gloucester, also known ...
Bethel AME Church, Greenwich New Jersey
The small, concrete masonry church known as Bethel AME Church is as a rare, surviving African American institution associated with multiple participants in the Underground Railroad. Located in the heart of the black community of Springtown in Greenwich Township, ...
